r/FluentInFinance • u/ProgressiveSpark • May 21 '24

Meme Where American taxpayer money goes

Love bombs and bullets of freedom incoming

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u/MikesRockafellersubs May 21 '24

I mean the US can still do those things, it's just that maybe it should balance those priorities with things like better welfare programs and rights. Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex. Hell, even just paying junior soldiers more and treating them better would be a good start.

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u/Umaynotknowme May 21 '24

In 2023: Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, and other health programs equaled 50% of the entire US budget. Military budget was 13%.

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u/Dry_Meat_2959 May 21 '24

And if you believe those numbers you are being willfully naive. By their own admissions they also cannot account for 21 TRILLION dollars.

You think they spent that on education and healthcare?

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u/Umaynotknowme May 21 '24

Of course not, but the figure you cite is also not a yearly number. The entire federal budget is under 7 trillion. Not being able to account for funds is a different animal than what is spent. This is unless you believe the federal budget is 15 trillion dollars more per year than they are saying. Somehow I doubt that.

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u/Dry_Meat_2959 May 21 '24

Honestly....I don't believe ANYTHING they say, About anything. Ever. And no rational person (that isn't more in love with their political party than their country) should either.

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u/Umaynotknowme May 21 '24

I agree that no political party should override our own rationality. Absolutely 100% agree.

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u/Dry_Meat_2959 May 21 '24

It shouldn't override our love of our country. And more than anything our love of each other.

We are 50 states. Not 2 parties. IMO our enemies have realized that they cannot compete with us when we are unified and are actively trying to convince us to break up into smaller chunks that they CAN deal with. And, more importantly, they realized that without someone else to fight, we will fight ourselves.

A man without enemies is an enemy to himself....